How Alberta eradicated rats - Works in Progress Magazine

Rats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on.

How LLMs Actually Work

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

Bias Compounds, Variance Washes Out

Round-to-nearest makes the same error every time. Stochastic rounding doesn't. Over long runs, that's everything.

It's Not Just X. It's Y.

Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking. "It's not x, it's y.

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol involved in getting the lock icon to appear in your browser next to the URL. Under the hood it uses a bunch of really cool numbers for encryption. Some numbers are considered private and need securing; some are considered public and are fine for sharing. You can mix your numbers with other people’s numbers in such a way that you can verify a chain of trust. Ultimately, at the top of this chain there has to be an entity or entities that are implied to be trustworthy, so that the links further down the chain of numbers can inherit that trust. This is the role of a root Certificate Authority (CA) at the top (root) of the chain.

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when [...]

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State of Homelab 2026

Evolution of a self-hosting hobby: from clueless to amateur.

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